Placenta Encapsulation 1 Rough draft in Parenting

We have to encapsulate 2 placenta’s before becoming certified and write an essay on each.

I did my first placenta encapsulation. While it was a volunteer encapsulation, it was still an opportunity for experience and one on one learning. I picked up the placenta in my cooler, and kept it in the bottom of my fridge until I was ready to start the process. I didn’t have all my stuff just yet so Melynda let me use her kitchen. I put on my gloves, apron and started to clean the kitchen counters, sink and stove with hot water and antibacterial dawn soap. After I wiped the counter, I sprayed bleach, scrubbed again and let sit. While the bleach sat, I cleaned off the utensils with soap and bleach. Then I wiped the counters dry. I wanted to practice making a print, so I rinsed off the placenta with cool water. The Placenta was thick, light and beautiful with a long white cord. I put the placenta on the cutting board on the counter and tried to find a vein to cut, but there didn’t seem to be much blood in the placenta. I drained what watery blood I could and took a q-tip and traced along the tree of life and the cord. I took the white sheet and pressed it over the placenta and pulled the paper back up. It didn’t turn out how I wanted, but there wasn’t much deep red blood to work with so it just looked like a placenta blob!

After I set the paper to dry, I put the placenta back on the cutting board in the sink and cut the cord off the placenta, accidently poking a hole in the process. There literally, was hardly any blood to drain, so I pressed gently on the maternal side and rinsed the best I could, cutting off any blood clots. I put the placenta in the pan and chopped up some lemon, garlic and pepper and put in the pan along with some water. I let it sit on medium/low for about 15 minutes, checking it with the tongs. The smell was not bad and it smelled like I was just cooking a stew. I flipped the placenta and one side looked like ground beef with a little pink; soon the sides curved up meaning it was ready to come off. I poured the water down the drain and let the placenta cool while I scrubbed the pot and washed it out. I took a knife and tried cutting the placenta in thin strips. I started off thin but the placenta was so thick, some pieces were thicker than others. So I pressed down and squished them flat. I took the pieces and put them on the dehydrator trays along with the tightly swirled cord. After the placenta was placed in the dehydrator, I cleaned the counters and stove with soap and bleach again. I let the utensils sit with bleach, and cleaned off the cutting boards, pans, utensils with hot water, soap and bleach. Then everything went in the big container, filled with bleach and water and let sit for 10-15 minutes.

I went back to Melynda’s 24 hours later to check on the pieces. They did not snap in half so I put them back in and came the next day hoping they would be done. They snapped and I took them out and placed them in smaller pieces in the blender/magic bullet and grinded it until it became a powder. I poured the powder in one bowl and the capsules in another. I had my gloves on and started to capsule them. There was a lot of powder so it was a long tedious process. It was hard to fill the caps completely and I told myself to invest in a capsule machine. I tried not to think negatively so I wouldn’t transfer negative energy into the capsules. But it was a little hard once my hand started cramping! When the gloves started getting super powdery, they would start to slip. I used all 200 of my capsules and put them in the jar once completed. I cleaned off the table and utensils with soap and hot water and let it sit in bleach and then rinsed with hot water. After I finished, I dropped the pills off, along with the print and umbilical cord at the client’s house who was very appreciative. I told her how many to take, how to store it and that she could freeze some if she wanted to save some for her first menstrual cycle. I told her my experience with them and how I called them my happy pills. I plan on touching base with her in a few weeks to ask how she feels with the pills.

Things I learned: Nothing is free. Know your worth. You’re providing an extraordinary service with awesome benefits. Cut your pieces smaller or it will take FOREVER to dehydrate and it’s not easy to cut it thin. Never tell them when you’re going to get it back to them b/c something WILL happen. Cleaning takes the longest, until you get used to it. Umbilical Cords are slippery and will fall on the floor at least once. Placenta broth smells good. Prints are not as easy as they look. Especially when you have no blood to work with. You will dream about placenta. Get a capsule machine. It takes FOREVER and it’s not as easy as it looks.